Category: Business

With all of the chipperness and quirky explanatory stories of a Planet Money podcast, Myassi’s book offers an introductory course to micro and macro economics. Using brief chapters, numerous illustrations, informative pull-out boxes, and colorful design, he explains GDP, inflation, the efficiency of free markets, the commodification of leisure time, enshittification (that’s a real economics term) of social media, the hidden cost of credit cards that offer free airline miles, and numerous other activities, not all of which I would have at first recognized as lying within the realm of economics. While there are several allusions to the downside of...